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Smith reaches 11,000 but can't return as Australia crumbles
Steve Smith joins an exclusive club with a milestone 11,000 Test runs but sits out the second innings with a neck injury as Marco Jansen dismantles Australia's batting.
In brief
Steve Smith joins an exclusive club with a milestone 11,000 Test runs but sits out the second innings with a neck injury as Marco Jansen dismantles Australia's batting. Steve Smith reached eleven thousand Test runs but did not return to bat in Australia's second innings after a neck injury, as Marco Jansen's…
Jansen tears through Australia's batting
Marco Jansen took five wickets on day four, dismissing Scott Boland, Travis Head, Matt Renshaw, Alex Carey and Beau Webster as Australia collapsed in their first innings.
Smith reaches 11,000 Test runs
Steve Smith became just the twelfth batter to score eleven thousand Test match runs, joining Ricky Ponting and Allan Border as the only Australians in that rare air.
Smith's neck injury forces him out
Struggling with a stiff neck and receiving multiple rounds of treatment, Smith was bowled by Wiaan Mulder for twenty eight. He did not recover in time to return for Australia's second innings.
Australia skittled for 99 in first innings
Australia was asked to follow on after being skittled for just ninety nine, their fourth-lowest Test total against the Proteas, leaving them needing three hundred twenty six runs to avoid another innings.
Harmer's stunning slip catch
Simon Harmer produced a sensational low catch at slip early on day four, diving dramatically to his left to pluck Marnus Labuschagne's thick edge from the air in front of second slip.
Labuschagne survives LBW review by inches
In the twenty eighth over of Australia's second innings, Labuschagne was given out LBW to a Harmer off break but reviewed and survived when ball tracking showed the ball missing leg stump by a coat…
Labuschagne throws away reprieve
Moments after his reprieve, Labuschagne mistimed a slog and holed out to long-on for thirty nine, throwing away an enormous opportunity to revive his Test career on a horror day for Australia.
Boland stands as nightwatchman again
Scott Boland batted as nightwatchman for the second consecutive evening, making his way through to stumps despite losing both Renshaw and Webster late in the day. Australia reached four for one hundred fifty six.
Australia still 170 runs from safety
At stumps on day four, Australia was four for one hundred fifty six with Travis Head unbeaten on eighty seven, still one hundred seventy runs away from making South Africa bat again.
The short version
Steve Smith reached eleven thousand Test runs but did not return to bat in Australia's second innings after a neck injury, as Marco Jansen's five-wicket haul sent Australia towards defeat in Gqeberha.
